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Would it be cheaper and more efficient to run the Arts Council with volunteers? "Arts Council England (ACE) is footing the bill for an Executive Director's eleventh-hour sabbatical, costing taxpayers up to £200k. Andrea Stark who was announced in October 2012 as leaving the organisation to join High House Production Park (HHPP), the flagship Thames Gateway regeneration project in Thurrock, Essex, has been allowed to join her new organisation as its Chief Executive whilst on a six-month sabbatical being paid for by ACE, ArtsProfessional has discovered. This contractual arrangement means that she will continue to be paid her six-figure salary by ACE until the end of June 2013, at which point ACE has confirmed she also becomes eligible for a redundancy pay-out which AP estimates is worth in excess of £100k. Had she been expected to resign from ACE in order to take up her new role at HHPP, she would have been ineligible for a severance package." (Arts
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